Gorilla Glue 50008 Adhesive, 8-Ounces

by Gorilla Glue

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Gorilla Glue cures with exposure to moisture in the wood and atmosphere; it is stainable and self-spreading. It bonds exotic and common woods, as well as ceramics, plastic, metals, stone, and much more. 100% waterproof and solvent-free. 8-ounce bottle.

Product Description

Gorilla Glue is the finest all purpose premium polyurethane wood glue available today. Gorilla Glue is environmentally friendly, incredibly strong, 100 waterproof, will not freeze, requires no mixing, does not become brittle with age and will not expand or contract in the glue joint. You can even glue up oily exotics without the kind of surface preparation required by other glues. You only need to apply Gorilla Glue to one surface, so your glue lasts twice as long. Clean up is easy and non-hardened glue may be removed with denatured alcohol, thinner or other common solvents. Gorilla Glue is 100 pure and contains no solvents or additives.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7 x 2 x 2 inches ; 10.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000223UV
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 50008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,510 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #36 in Home Improvement > Hardware > Adhesives & Sealers > Wood Glue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great when you have small gaps to fill, May 31, 2000

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Kevin Mann (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gorilla Glue 50008 Adhesive, 8-Ounces (Tools & Home Improvement)

If you need a strong joint, but don't have the time or tools to make a completely tight fit, this glue works wonders. I've used it to make strong joints between plywood edges and hardwood for a table top, for dowel joints, and for screwed joints. The glue expands by about three times and will fill gaps up to about 1/32" with close to full strength, and larger gaps with less strength. One caution, as it dries, the glue foams up and you have to plan on chiselling off or power-sanding off the squeeze out. Also, you need to keep the joint under pressure for one to four hours before removing clamps. This is not a glue to use when you need the joint to set-up quickly, or when you will not be able to sand off the squeeze out. With that said, this glue makes strong joints with much less preparation than conventional glues. I use it whenever strength is critical.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the hassle, October 19, 2004

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Aaron Dutenhoefer (Sun Prairie, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gorilla Glue 50008 Adhesive, 8-Ounces (Tools & Home Improvement)

I'm writing from the perspective of a cabinetmaker. This glue may work for your particular projects, but here's why it's no good for cabinetmaking:

1) It foams. It foams a LOT!

2) The foam stains the wood. Wiping it off sort of helps, until you apply stain/varnish a week later and the stain appears a radically different color wherever you let the glue/foam touch the wood.

3) It's not as strong as alphatic resin (wood glue). Some will argue with this statement, but glue together four pieces of wood, two with alphatic resin, two with this stuff. Now smash them both. This stuff fails on the glue joint, whereas the alphatic resin will take a signifficant portion of the wood with it.

4) It's three times as expensive as wood glue.

5) It takes longer to use, since you have to moisten (with water) the two workpieces to be joined.

6) It requires a longer clamp time than wood glue.

Some will say that with practice these concerns can all be mitigated, but I've got enough trouble just training employees not to cut their fingers off in the table saw - Now I've got to "train" someone how to use glue? No Thanks.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GORILLA GRIP, January 13, 2004

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R. F. Waechter (Downingtown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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I purchased this product by recommendation of a trusted hardware store owner to bond a loose plastic rain guard over the window of my GMC Sierra Z71 to the metal door frame. For six months I have tested the glue on various applications including wood, plastic steel, and aluminum in both land and marine environments.

This is a non-tacky liquid that requires only two things to make it work well using common sense methods to apply. Clamp/form where necessary and use water as a catylyst and bonding agent per instructions. I prefer giving the surfaces a light, fine spray of water with a good spray bottle.

A little goes a very long way. This is the most fascinating material since "aerogel". A little Gorilla will grow overnight, expanding, say, 399-400% at full cure into a final hard mass of structural air cells. Excess can be shaved or cut off and sanded, if required.

Other that the superb holding characteristics, the great wonder of this fluid polyurethane is its expansion capability to allow it to be used, also, as a filler/bonding material. I have a 12 ft. wide overhead garage door on my boathouse by-the-sea. On one horizontal section, where the glazing is stiled and railed, the wood around many of the hinge hardware has rotted. After removing the dust and fragments of the dead wood fibers, substantial areas of irregular shape remained void of any material. This poor condition makes it difficult to install new hardware and to find a surface to paint.

The solution is to clean and prep the area, spray the elements with water, with a glue brush the obscured interior areas and perimeter walls with some Gorilla. Next, cut a section of clear heavy platic sheeting, say, from a packaging bag from some item you recently bought, or a Zip-loc, of size with sufficient overlap. Then, solidly reinforce the damaged ares with a rigid, nailable sheeting to create a form, say, Luan underlayment, or equal, and tack this form to the tackable areas of the good wood. Create a fill/vent hole at the highest point on one side of the voided-to-fill area. Using the squeezable Gorilla bottle force the glue through the hole to fill, say, 1/3 of the voided volume. Sorry, but the exact amount is not known since the coefficent of expansion remains an unknown to this date, and may vary according to other elements of physics and science. But, this is pretty much a dummy-proof method. Let the project sit overnight. If you don't see an excess of Gorilla that has forced its way out the vent hole, then give another light spray shot of water through the hole and inject some more Gorilla through the hole, sit and let cure. Upon completion, cut access off, strip the form, sand, drill, if needed, and paint to finish. The extent of the area and conditions that this method of application can be used is unknown. Also, the expected shelf-life is unknown, so I bought the 8 oz. bottle. The integrity of the glue is still good after six months. Explore, test and share your results with others. This is a worthwhile product that works as I never expected.

If you have a lot of broken stuff, never leave home without your Gorilla!